You friends starting the discussions that don't interest you, you still respond?

i think you not need to respond to every discussions they start, if you want to keep the friendship, just respond to those you are interested. but if there are a lot that you are not interested at, maybe just email them or sent them messages to talk so then you will not be out of touch and still let the person knows you care

I find it hard to respond to discussions that do not interest me but I do try and respond to my friends. I do a search every day of friends discussions and I respond if I can. If I consistently find that their discussions do not interest me and they do not respond to mine then I assume that I have the wrong friends and do a clean out of my friends list. I have done that once only so far.

Well, I just can't respond if I'm not interested in the discussion. I'll try to read, if possible, but if I really don't have any comments on it, I don't think it's suitable for me to respond, whether it's from my friends or not. I just think that some friends may not share the same interest all the time, so it should be fine with that.

I have been trying to the best of my ability to respond to all the posts of my supportive friends when I have plenty of time, but as you said there really are some instances when some of their posts are not interesting and no matter how hard I try could not find words that will make a good and quality response. In such case, I do not respond anymore. I believe it happens not only to all so I need not burden myself of answering post that does no interest me. What is important is that I am responding to all their topics that are interesting to me. However, I have very supportive friends that start only one topic and only once in a while and I am very happy that most of their topics are interesting so I can give full support. There are friends though that start so many topics so if all the topics are interesting I respond to all of them if I have plenty of time but there are cases that not all are interesting so I skip those uninteresting ones. Also there are some cases that my time here is limited so if a friend started so many topics I cannot give all my time to him or her because I have to divide my time equally to all my supportive friends. If all my supportive friends started new topics, I have to give at least one response to all of them before my limited time get used up.

i would only response the discussions which would interest me and i dont feel that i have to respond to any discussion if it is not of my interest and it is not going to matter and i would always respond to the discussion which comes under my interest and if the discussion is not of our interest how can we respond and i dont think i would have any ideas to write there and hence inducing something is really difficult and i cant strain myself to induce some ideas so i respond to the one which are of my interest.

Hi there, I dont really go to my friends discussion, usually i like to respond on no responses most of the time, but if i dont find interesting one, i go to today top or hot discussion so can participate the discussion. I respond to a discussion because i am interested in it and i can share my view and my ideas and it doest matter if he/she is my friend. I am not type of the person who only likes to respond friends discussion for their are discussion that i cannot relate with.

Hi there! Any topic could be a start of a good coversation.. it doesnt matter if it dont suit to your interest and besides it could help your friend earn in this money-making cycle. Just try to be helpful and kind kind once in a while. Have a nice day!

to be honest, i dont respond to the discussions that dont interest me.i havent started many discussions,neither do i have many friends here. i dont think all my friends here have responded to my discussions.but under the circumstance u mentioned ,that is if my friends respond to each and every discussion i make, of course, i respond to theirs even if the topics are not of interest. i will still show my support! good day!

Hi friend,I never select topics from my friends list and am not worried if my friends dont answer my discussion.Because it is very difficult and waste of time when we try to respond the discussions which do not interest us.We have to think a lot,instead we can make two responses which we are able to respond.There are thousands of discussions crossing everytime ,so in that we cant be searching our friends discussions.Whatever discussion is easy and to which I am able to give a quality response only I can select.There should not be regrets in these kind of matters.But I do not know what others feel. Thanks for sharing.happy mylotting.

Yes, I do try to respond to the discussion my friend starts, even when they don't interest me. Once I get started typing the words start flowing out. It might not make much sense but at least I am trying. I have many friends most don't even bother to respond to my discussion, but who cares I am still making a little progress.

I really do try to give my friends' discussions first priority, but if they are not disussing something I find interesting, it's very hard. Actually I'm finding today extremely hard, because not only are my friends not starting anything interesting, very few other people are either, and I'm really struggling to find things to post on. Lash

Honestly, I don't respond to a discussion if it doesn't interest me even if it was started by my friend. Ofcourse, it would be hard for me to post my response if I don't know anything about it or I cannot relate to the topic. I don't think my friends will think that it is unfair.

In order for me to respond I would have to have some kind of interest in the subject or some type of knowledge about it. If I do not I would not respond. Somethimes I even start my own discussions if I can not find anything that interest me.

I am new to My Lot and have not added any friends yet, and having gone through the site a couple of hours, I feel I could only respond to discussions that truly interest me & not otherwise! It would become such a pain to do so otherwise. What I do think is that when your friends take part in a discussion, that discussion becomes more visible to you, and of course you are more interested to know what input your friends have given, and maybe that encourages one to put in their own comments. So its a cycle. I don't think one could categorize a friend as not a good one, incase he/she does not respond to a discussion you've started but does not interest them. I think that would be quite immature to say the least.

No I certainly do not respond to each and every discussion that are started by my friends here on myLot. Generally I will mostly respond only to those discussions where the topic interests me and when I feel I have something to contribute. Yes we might have requested or accepted a friend request but that does not mean that we will always be interested in the same things. Not responding to a discussion when the topic is something that you have no interest in and/or possibly no knowledge either is not the way to keep friends. If you thin about the situation, you would not do it in real life when in the company of a friend so why should you do it when you are online. If your friends are responding to each and every discussion that you start, then they must find the topic you have are of interest top them. If they didn't then I am very sure they would not take the time and go to the trouble of thinking up a suitable response. Yes friends do help each other out but not to the extent that they would "fudge" something just so they could say they have responded. What I would do in your circumstances is choose which discussions are of interest to me and then give those ones the very best responses that I can think of. In that way yo are helping your friends with their discussions. Good luck and may you friends always start discussions on subjects which are of great interest to you.

no i wont. its true I mostly browse through friends' discussions, but not just anything.I only answer those that are interesting. not all just for the sake.

I try my best to respond to their discussion... especially those who see to it that they will respond to mine... even if they cannot relate to my topic... i would just give my own simple idea... or be frank that i cannot really help because i just do not know what they are talking about... and it think that is better than not responding at all...

I try to respond to all my friends discussions on here, it's hard though but I know it's impossible to reply to every single discussion they post, lets be realistic now..LOL .. Sometimes there isn't enough hours in the day to reply to everyone and my friends list is getting larger, but I will try my hardest to respond to all of my friends as much as possible.But to be honest, if I have some friends on mylot that I have more of a common interest with I will probably comment on their discussions more then other because of this reason.. Lately I have been here at MyLot more then at my Myspace and I think some of my Myspace friends are feeling neglected because I don't log-in as much as I use to and answer their messages, emails or approve comments. So I hope my Mylot friends understand why I can't comment here all the time because I'm always split in-between two social networks. I love mylot though!:)

No because, for me if the topic doesn't interest me I couldn't answer it in the first place. I'll just go on and find their discussions that might be interesting for me.

The reason why we respond on discussions here in mylot is that we are all interested with the topics. If I were to ask of that question, maybe I will not respond on the topic. though he/ she is my friend. Because how can I respond on that topic if i am not interested? It will just be a limited idea that i can share with that topic. So better not to.. :-)